SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
IN THE ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT

Johann van Reenen
University of New Mexico

…scholars are losing control of the system that should
exist solely to serve them, other researchers, and students throughout the world.
Their research, supported by your institutions and by grants, is given to publishers
who then sell it back to their library, sometimes at unjustifiable prices. The
core purpose of the system — communication of research results — is being lost,
as fewer and fewer researchers are able to access scholarly work. In many cases,
faculty has even lost the right to use their own published research in their
own classrooms!

(ARL 2000)

ABSTRACT

Libraries and information service providers cannot
stand aloof from the current developments (legal, technological, and organizational)
in scholarly publishing. This chapter will discuss these issues and provide
ways to influence beneficial change.